Russian Orientalism in a Global Context

Maria Taroutina is Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies at Brown UniversityAllison Leigh is Associate Professor of Art History and the SLEMCO/LEQSF Regents Endowed Professor in Art and Architecture at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette

‘An ambitious volume that advances at an urgent moment our understanding of the imperial matrices within which Orientalist art emerged.’Rosalind P. Blakesley, The Russian Review‘The volume demonstrates the importance of Russian and Slavic studies to postcolonial approaches to art history.’Kamran Karimullah, The Muslim World Book Review

• Foreword: Accounting for human diversity: the experience of Imperial RussiaVera TolzIntroductionMaria Taroutina1 Western or non-Western? The case of Russian artAllison Leigh2 Perceptions of China and Russian chinoiserie under Empress Elisabeth PetrovnaEkaterina Heath and Jennifer Milam3 “The picturesque Caucasus” of Grigorii Gagarin and Vasilii TimmAndrew M. Nedd4 From the Alhambra to St. Petersburg: Karl Rakhau’s orientalizing interiorsKatrin Kaufmann 5 The Orient estranged: Vasilii Vereshchagin’s Blowing from Guns in British IndiaJohn Webley 6 The man in the purple coat: art and empire in Ilia Repin’s Reception of Volost EldersNikita Balagurov7 How the Orient was Russianized: texts, images, and the popular imagination from Eruslan Lazarevich to Ruslan and LiudmilaHanna Chuchvaha 8 From Zen Buddhism to the “zero of form”: exoticism, mysticism, and the East in Kazimir Malevich’s early worksMaria Taroutina 9 Pavel Kuznetsov’s “distant and strange” agricultural laborersMarie Gasper-Hulvat 10 Soviet propaganda posters and Islamic art: mobilizing artistic heritage in 1920s UzbekistanMollie Arbuthnot Afterword: Peripheral horizons: Russian Orientalism in a global contextMary Roberts Index